Mel Brooks to Play Dracula’s Dad in Hotel Transylvania 2

I don’t know about you, but I had a lot of fun with 2012’s Hotel Transylvania, which was a veritable monster mash of pure entertainment. A sequel is on the horizon, and a pretty big name has just signed on to play a brand spankin’ new character. Read on!

Per USA Today, in the 2015 sequel legendary comedian/filmmaker Mel Brooks will be voicing the ancient vampire Vlad, the cranky old father of Adam Sandler’s Dracula.

The centuries-old Vlad is “like my real, honest-to-goodness personality. I’m pretty grumpy,” jokes Brooks. “It was a good choice.”

A family get-together in Hotel Transylvania 2 brings Vlad to town — along with some secrets and drama — to visit the estranged son he hasn’t seen in years. He turns everybody’s life upside down, from Drac, Mavis, and Jonathan to hotel regulars such as Frank (Kevin James), Wayne Werewolf (Steve Buscemi), and Murray the Mummy (Keegan-Michael Key).

The film arrives in theaters September 25, 2015, and is directed by the returning Genndy Tartakovsky.